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HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACT, 1974 (ACT NO. 56 OF 1974)
REGULATIONS DEFINING THE SCOPE OF THE PROFESSION OF AUDIOLOGY
The Minister of Health has, in terms of section 61 read with section 33(1) of the Health
Professions Act, 1974 (Act No.56 of 1974) and on the recommendations of the Health
Professions Council of South Africa and the Professional Board for Speech, Language and
Hearing Professions, made the regulations in the schedule.
SCHEDULE
1. Definitions
In these regulations "the Act" means the Health Professions Act, 1974 (Act 56 of
1974), and any expression to which a meaning has been assigned in the Act bears
that meaning unless the context otherwise indicates.
"board" means the Professional Board for Speech, Language and Hearing
Professions established in terms of section 15 of the Act;
"section" means a section of the Act;
"scope of the profession" means the complete range of Audiology professional
endeavours (within agreed boundaries) that includes the distinctive body of
knowledge and skills, abilities and values for which professionals suitably educated
and trained, and sufficiently experienced, have autonomy in performance of work;
there is public recognition of the authority of the practitioner by virtue of operation
within ethical standards, a service orientation, and making expertise available to
others;
2. The following acts are hereby specified as acts which shall, for the purpose of the
Act, be deemed to be acts pertaining to the scope of the profession of audiology:
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GOVERNMENT NOTICE
GOEWERMENTSKENNISGEWING
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTHDEPARTEMENT VAN GESONDHEID
No. R. 700 29 August 2012
Hearing, auditory and vestibular function
(1) (a) Assessing and diagnosing dysfunction in hearing, auditory function and
vestibular related balance disorders; assessing persons with cochlear implants and
middle ear implantable devices; and following up on assessments of persons with
cochlear implants and middle ear implantable devices;
(b) Selecting, verifying, fitting, and dispensing hearing aids;
(c) providing a comprehensive program of diagnostic, therapeutic services, devices,
counselling, and other management strategies;
(d) diagnosing vestibular disorders and management of vestibular rehabilitation; and
(e) conducting research in audiology.
Clinical Services
(2) Audiologists provide clinical services that include the following:
(a) Prevention;
(b) Identification or screening;
(c) Assessment or evaluation;
(d) Consultation;
(e) Diagnosis;
(f) Management;
(g) Counselling;
(h) Collaboration;
(I) record keeping and report writing; and
(j) Referral
Examples of these clinical services include:
(a) using data to guide clinical decision making and determine the effectiveness
of services;
(b) making service delivery decisions (e.g., admission/eligibility, frequency,
duration, location, discharge/dismissal) across the lifespan;
(c) determining appropriate context(s) for service delivery (e.g., home,
school, telepractice, community);
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(d) documenting provision of services in accordance with accepted
procedures appropriate for the practice setting;
(e) collaborating with other professionals (e.g., identifying neonates and infants at
risk for hearing loss); and
(f) serving as expert witnesses.
Promotion
(3) promotion of healthy hearing, auditory, and vestibular function; promotion of
healthy lifestyle practices to prevent hearing and balance problems e.g. reducing
exposure to loud sounds; ear care.
Prevention
(4) (a) prevention of hearing loss and protection of hearing function by
designing, implementing, and coordinating occupational, school, and
community hearing conservation and identification programs
(b) participating in noise measurements of the acoustic environment to improve
accessibility and to promote hearing wellness;
(c) presenting primary prevention information to risk groups; and
(d) providing early identification and early intervention services;
Advocacy
(5) (a) Advocacy for communication needs of all persons that may include
advocating for the rights of persons suffering from hearing loss, auditory, or
vestibular disorders;
(b) Advocacy for issues (i.e., acoustic accessibility) that affect the rights of
persons with normal hearing;
(c) Consult with professionals of related services when needed;
(d) Participate in development of an individualized education programme for
school-age children or an individualized family service plan for children from
birth to 36 months old;
(e) Consult with educators as members of interdisciplinary teams about
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communication management, educational implications of hearing loss and
other auditory dysfunction, educational programming, classroom acoustics,
and large-area amplification systems for children with hearing loss and other
auditory dysfunction;
(f) Advocate for social inclusion and participation;
(g) Consult about accessibility for persons with hearing loss and other auditory
and vestibular dysfunction in public and private buildings, programs, and
services;
(h) Consult with individuals, public and private agencies, and governmental
bodies, or as an expert witness regarding legal interpretations of audiology
findings, effects of hearing loss and other auditory dysfunction, balance
system impairments, and relevant noise-related considerations;
(i) Case management and service as a liaison for the consumer, family, and
agencies in order to monitor audiologic status and management and to make
recommendations about educational and vocational programming;
(j) Consultant to industry on the development of products and instrumentation
related to the measurement and management of auditory or balance function;
(k) Promoting professional services; and
(I) Recruiting potential audiologists;
(m) Active participation in professional organizations to contribute to best
practices in the profession.
Identification
(6) (a) Identifying dysfunction in hearing, auditory and vestibular systems;
(b) Supervision, implementation, and follow-up of newborn and school hearing
screening programs;
(c) Screening for speech, language, cognitive communication disorders, and/or
preferred communication modalities that may affect education, health,
development or communication, and which may result in recommendations
for rescreening or comprehensive speech-language pathology assessment
or in referral for other examinations or services;
(d) Identification of persons with, or at risk of suffering from hearing loss and
other auditory dysfunction, balance impairments, tinnitus, and associated
communication impairments; and
(e) In collaboration with speech-language therapists, identification ofpersons at risk of developing speech-language impairments.
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Assessment
(7) (a) Assessing hearing, auditory and vestibular systems;
(b) Conducting and interpreting behavioural, electroacoustic, and
electrophysiologic methods to assess hearing, auditory function, balance,
and related systems;
(c) Measurement and interpretation of sensory and motor evoked
potentials, electromyography, and other electrodiagnostic tests for purposes
of neurophysiologic intra-operative monitoring and cranial nerve
assessment;
(d) Evaluation and management of persons with auditory-related
processing disorders;
(e) Evaluation and non-medical rehabilitation of persons with vestibular
-related disorders;
(f) Performance of otoscopy for audiological management or to provide a
basis for medical referral;
(g) Cerumen management to prevent obstruction of the external ear
canal and amplification devices;
(h) Preparation of reports including interpreting data, summarising findings,
generating recommendations and developing an audiologic treatment/
management plan; and
(i) Referrals to other professions, agencies, and/ or consumer
organizations.
Habilitation or Rehabilitation
(8) (a) Habilitation or rehabilitation of hearing, auditory function, and
vestibular related balance systems;
(b) evaluating, selecting, revivifying, fitting and dispensing hearing aid devices;
(c) Assessment of persons suffering from hearing loss, for cochlear implants and
provision of fitting, mapping, and audiologic rehabilitation to optimize device
use;
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(d) Development of a culturally appropriate, audiologic rehabilitative
management plan including, where appropriate:
(i) Recommendations for fitting and dispensing sensory aids, hearing aid
devices, alerting systems, and captioning devices;
(ii) educating the consumer, family or caregivers in the use and
adjustment of sensory aids, hearing aid devices, alerting systems, and
captioning devices;
(iii) Counselling relating to psycho social aspects of hearing loss, and
other auditory dysfunction, and processes to enhance communication
competence;
(iv) Skills training and consultation concerning environmental modifications
to facilitate the development of receptive and expressive
communication;
(v) Evaluation and modification of the audiologic management plan.
(e) Provision of comprehensive audiologic rehabilitation services, including
management procedures for speech and language habilitation or rehabilitation or
both habilitation and rehabilatation including but not limited to speech-reading,
auditory training, communication strategies, manual communication and
counseling for psychosocial adjustment for persons with hearing loss or other
auditory dysfunction and their families or caregivers;
(f) Consultation and provision of vestibular and balance rehabilitation therapy to
persons with vestibular and balance impairments;
(g) Assessment and non-medical management of tinnitus using biofeedback,
behavioral management, technology, and counselling;
(h) Provision of training to professionals of allied services when needed;
(i) Participation in the development of individualized education programmes for
school-age children or individualized family service plan for children from birth to
36 months old;
(j) Provision of in-service programs for school personnel, and advising school
districts in planning educational programs and accessibility for students with
hearing loss and other auditory dysfunction;
(k) Measurement of noise levels and provision of recommendations for environmental
modifications in order to reduce the noise level;
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(I) Management of the selection, purchase, installation, and evaluation of large-area
amplification systems.
(m) Facilitating the process of obtaining funding for equipment and services related to
difficulties with hearing, auditory function and balance; and
(n) Serving as case managers, service delivery coordinators, and members of
collaborative teams (e.g., individualized family service plan and individualized
education program teams, transition planning teams).
Education and training
(9) (a) Serving as educators and researchers in audiology;
(b) Educating the public and fostering awareness of hearing, auditory function and
balance disorders and the treatment thereof
(c) Providing in-service training to persons suffering from hearing and audiology
disorders, their families, caregivers, and other professionals;
(d) Educating, supervising, and mentoring current and future audiologists
(e) Educating, supervising, and managing Audiology assistants and other support
personnel;
(f) Measuring functional outcomes, consumer satisfaction, efficacy,
effectiveness, and efficiency of practices and programs to maintain and
improve the quality of audiologic services;
(g) Designing and conducting basic and applied audiologic research to increase
the knowledge base, to develop new methods and programs, and to
determine the efficacy, effectiveness, and efficiency of assessment and
treatment paradigms; disseminating research findings to other professionals
and to the public; and
(h) Serving as expert witnesses
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Administration
(10) (a) Administering and managing clinical and academic programs;
(b) Participating in the development of policies, operational procedures in the
workplace, and professional and technical standards; and
(c) Supervising support personnel.
Practice settings
(11) Audiologists provide audiology services in a variety of settings including, but not
limited to: day-care facilities; pre-schools; public and private schools; tertiary
institutions of education; public and private hospitals; neonatal intensive care
units; urban and rural clinics; university clinics; rehabilitation facilities; long term
care facilities; behavioural, and mental health facilities; private practices;
physician's office; person's residences; communities; industries; military;
research facilities; local, provincial, and national institutions and government
departments; and hearing aid companies.
Range of clients or patients
(12) Audiologists provide audiology services to persons of all age groups, their
families, and groups from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds.
3. The listing of specific areas within these regulations does not exclude emerging
areas of practice in this dynamic and continuously developing profession.
Repeal
4. The regulations published under Government Notice R. 889 in Government Gazette
11289 of 5 May 1988 are hereby repealed.
DR. A MOTSOALEDI, MPMINISTER OF HEALTH
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WET OP GESONDHEIDSBEROEPE, 1974 (WET NO. 56 VAN 1974)
REGULASIES WAT DIE OMVANG VAN DIE BEROEP VAN OUDIOLOGIE OMSKRYF
Die Minister van Gesondheid het kragtens artikel 61, gelees met artikel 33(1), van die Wet
op Gesondheidsberoepe, 1974 (Wet No. 56 van 1974), en op aanbeveling van die Raad vir
Gesondheidsberoepe van Suid-Afrika en van die Beroepsraad vir Spraak-, Taal- en
Gehoorberoepe die regulasies in die bylae uitgevaardig.
BYLAE
Woordomskrywing
1. In hierdie bylae beteken "die Wet" die Wet op Gesondheidsberoepe, 1974 (Wet No.
56 van 1974), en het enige uitdrukking waaraan 'n betekenis in die Wet geheg word,
daardie betekenis, en, tensy uit die konteks anders blyk, beteken-
"artikel" 'n artikel van die Wet;
"omvang van die beroep" die volledige reeks oudiologieberoepstake (binne
ooreengekome grense) wat die onderskeidende korpus van kennis, vaardighede,
vermoens en waardes behels ten opsigte waarvan beroepspersone wat gepaste
onderwys en opleiding en toereikende ervaring het, outonoom werk verrig en ten
opsigte waarvan daar openbare erkenning van die gesag van die praktisyn is uit
hoofde van werkverrigting volgens etiese standaarde, diensgeorienteerdheid en die
beskikbaarstelling van kundigheid aan andere; en
"mad" die Beroepsraad vir Spraak-, Taal- en Gehoorberoepe ingestel kragtens
artikel 15 van die Wet.
Bepaling van handelinge
2. Die volgende handelinge word hierby bepaal as handelinge wat vir doeleindes van
die Wet geag word handelinge to wees wat by die beroep van oudiologie tuishoort:
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Gehoor-, ouditiewe en vestibulere funksie
(1) (a) Die evaluering en diagnosering van disfunksie in gehoor, ouditiewe funksie en
vestibulumverwante balanssteuring; die evaluering van persone met kogleere
inplantings en middeloorinplantingstoestelle; en opvolgwerk ten opsigte van
evaluerings van persone met kogleere inplantings en
middeloorinplantingstoestelle;
(b) die selektering, verifiering, inpiasing en verskaffing van gehoorapparaat;
(c) die verskaffing van 'n omvattende program van diagnostiese en terapeutiese
dienste, toestelle, berading en ander bestuurstrategiee;
(d) die diagnosering van vestibulere steurings en die bestuur van vestibulere
rehabilitasie; en
(e) navorsing in oudiologie.
Kliniese dienste
(2) Die verskaffing van kliniese dienste, wat die volgende insluit:
(a) Voorkoming;
(b) identifisering of sifting;
(c) assessering of evaluering;
(d) konsultasie;
(e) diagnosering;
(f) bestuur;
(g) berading;
(h) samewerking;
rekordhouding en verslagskrywing; en
a) verwysing.
Voorbeelde van hierdie kliniese dienste sluit in-
(i) die gebruik van data om kliniese besluitneming te rig en die doeltreffendheid
van dienste te bepaal;
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(iv)
(v)
(vi)
Bevordering
die neem van diensleweringsbesluite (bv. opname/kwalifisering vir opname,
frekwensie, duur, ligging, ontslag) gedurende die lewensduur;
die bepaling van gepaste konteks(te) vir dienslewering (bv. tuis, skool,
telepraktyk, gemeenskap);
die dokumentering van dienste ooreenkomstig aanvaarde prosedures wat vir
die praktykomgewing geskik is;
samewerking met ander beroepslui (bv. die identifisering van pasgeborenes
en babas wat die gevaar van gehoorverlies loop); en
optrede as deskundige getuies.
(3) (a) Die bevordering van gesonde gehoor-, ouditiewe en vestibulere funksie;
(b) die bevordering van 'n gesonde lewenstyl ten einde gehoor- en
balansprobleme te voorkom, byvoorbeeld deur blootstelling aan harde geluide
te verminder; en
(c) oorsorg.
Voorkoming
(4) (a) Die voorkoming van gehoorverlies en die beskerming van die gehoorfunksie
deur gehoorbehouds- en identifiseringsprogramme vir die beroepsiewe, skool
en gemeenskap te ontwerp, te implementeer en te koordineer;
(b) deelname aan geraasmeting in die akoestiese omgewing ten einde toegang tot
gehoorgesondheid te verbeter en gehoorgesondheid te bevorder;
(c) primere voorkomingsinligting te verskaf aan risikogroepe; en
(d) die verskaffing van vroee-identifikasie- en vroee-intervensiedienste;
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Voorspraak
(5) (a) Voorspraak vir gemeenskapsbehoeftes van alle persone, wat voorspraak kan
insluit vir die regte van persone wat aan gehoorverlies of ouditiewe of
vestibulere steurings ly;
(b) voorspraak ten opsigte van vraagstukke (bv. akoestiese toeganklikheid) wat
die regte van persone met normale gehoor raak;
(c) konsultasie met beroepslui uit verwante dienste, wanneer nodig;
(d) deelname aan die ontwikkeling van 'n geIndividualiseerde onderwysprogram vir
kinders van skoolgaande ouderdom of 'n geIndividualiseerde gesinsdiensplan
vir kinders van geboorte tot 36 maande;
(e) konsultasie met opvoeders as lede van interdissiplinere spanne oor
kommunikasiebestuur, die opvoedkundige implikasies van gehoorverlies en
ander ouditiewe disfunksie, onderwysbeplanning, kiaskamer- akoestiek en
grootgebied-klankversterkingstelsels vir kinders met gehoorverlies en ander
ouditiewe disfunksie;
(f) voorspraak vir maatskaplike insluiting en deelname;
(g) konsultasie oor die toeganklikheid van openbare en private geboue,
programme en dienste vir persone met gehoorverlies en ander ouditiewe en
vestibulere disfunksie;
(h) konsultasie met individue, openbare en private agentskappe, en
owerheidsliggame, of as deskundige getuie, in verband met regsvertolkings
van oudiologiese bevindings, die effekte van gehoorverlies en ander ouditiewe
disfunksie, baiansstelselaantastings en toepaslike geraasverwante oorwegings;
gevallebestuur en diens as 'n skakelpersoon vir die verbruiker, gesin en
agentskappe ten einde oudiologiese status en die bestuur daarvan te monitor
en aanbevelings te doen oor onderwys- en beroepsprogrammering;
(j) optrede as konsultant in die nywerheid oor die ontwikkeling van produkte en
instrumentasie in verband met die meting en bestuur van ouditiewe of
balansfunksie;
die bevordering van professionele dienste;
die werwing van potensiele oudioloe; en
aktiewe deelname aan professionele organisasies ten einde by te dra tot beste
praktyke in die beroep.
(i)
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ldentifisering
(6) (a) Die identifisering van disfunksie in gehoor-, ouditiewe en vestibul8re stelsels;
(b) toesig, implementering en opvolgwerk met betrekking tot siftingsprogramme
vir pasgeborenes en by skole;
(c) sifting vir spraak-, taal- en kognitiewe kommunikasiesteurings, en/of voorkeur-
kommu nikasiemodaliteite wat onderwys, gesondheid, ontwikkeling of
kommunikasie kan affekteer en wat kan lei tot aanbevelings van hersifting of
omvattende evaluering vir spraak-taal-patologie of tot verwysings vir ander
ondersoeke of dienste;
(d) die identifisering van persone met, of wat die gevaar loop om te ly aan,
gehoorverlies en ander ouditiewe disfunksie, balansaantastings, tinnitus en
gepaardgaande kommunikasieaantastings; en
(e) die identifisering, in samewerking met spraak-taal-terapeute, van persone wat
die gevaar loop om spraak-taal-aantastings te ontwikkel.
Evaluering
(7) (a) Die evaluering van gehoor-, ouditiewe en vestibulere stelsels;
(b) die gebruik en interpretasie van gedrags-, elektroakoestiese en
elektrofisiologiese metodes om gehoor, ouditiewe funksie, balans en
verwante stelsels te evalueer;
(c) die meting en interpretasie van sensories en motories uitgelokte potensiale,
elektromiografie en ander elektrodiagnostiese toetse vir doeleindes van
neurofisiologiese intraoperatiewe
kraniale senuwee;
die evaluering en
prosesseringsteurings;
die evaluering en
monitering en
bestuur van persone
niemediese rehabilitasie
die evaluering van die
met ouditief-verwante
van persone met
vestibulumverwante steurings;
die uitvoer van otoskopiee vir oudiologiese bestuur of om 'n basis vir mediese
verwysing te verskaf;
serumenbestuur ten einde obstruksie van die uitwendige oorkanaal en
klankversterkingstoestelle te voorkom;
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(h) die opstel van verslae, met inbegrip van die interpretasie van data, die opsom
van bevindings, die opstel van aanbevelings en die ontwikkeling van 'n
oudiologiese behandelings-/bestuursplan; en
(i) verwysings na ander beroepe, agentskappe en/of verbruikersorganisasies.
Habilitasie of rehabilitasie
(8) (a) Die habilitasie of rehabilitasie van gehoor, ouditiewe funksie en
vestibulumverwante balansstelsels;
(b) die evaluering, selektering, verfrissing, inpiasing en verskaffing van
gehoorapparate;
(c) die evaluering van persone met gehoorverlies vir kogle8re inpiantings en die
inplasing, roetering en oudiologiese rehabilitasie om apparaatgebruik te
optimeer;
(d) die ontwikkeling van 'n kultureel gepaste, oudiologies rehabiliterende
bestuursplan wat, waar gepas, die volgende insluit:
(i) Aanbevelings vir die inpiasing en verskaffing van sensoriese
hulpmiddels, gehoorapparate, waarskuwingstelsels en skriftoestelle;
(ii) opvoeding van die verbruiker, gesin of versorgers in die gebruik en
verstelling van sensoriese hulpmiddels, gehoorapparate,
waarskuwingstelsels en skriftoestelle;
(iii) berading met betrekking tot die psigososiale aspekte van
gehoorverlies en ander ouditiewe disfunksie, en prosesse om
kommunikasievermoe te verbeter;
(iv) vaardigheidsopleiding en konsultasie rakende omgewingsaanpassings
ten einde die ontwikkeling van reseptiewe en ekspressiewe
kommunikasie te vergemaklik; en
(v) die evaluering en aanpassing van die oudiologiese bestuursplan;
(e) die verskaffing van omvattende oudiologiese rehabilitasiedienste, met
inbegrip van bestuursprosedures vir spraak- en taalhabilitasie of
-rehabilitasie, of sowel sodanige habilitasie as sodanige rehabilitasie, wat
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insluit, maar nie beperk is nie tot, spraaklees, ouditiewe opleiding,
kommunikasiestrategiee, handmatige kommunikasie en berading vir
psigososiale aanpassing vir persone met gehoorverlies of ander ouditiewe
disfunksie en hulle gesinne of versorgers ;
(f) konsultasie met en die verskaffing van vestibulere en
balansrehabilitasieterapie aan persone met vestibulere en balansaantastings;
(g) die evaluering en niemediese bestuur van tinnitus deur middel van
bioterugvoering, gedragsbestuur, tegnologie en berading;
(h) die gee van opleiding aan beroepslui uit verwante dienste, wanneer nodig;
(i) deelname aan die ontwikkeling van geindividualiseerde onderwysprogramme
vir kinders van skoolgaande ouderdom of geindividualiseerde
gesinsdiensplanne vir kinders van geboorte tot 36 maande oud;
(i) die verskaffing van indiensprogramme aan skoolpersoneel en advieslewering
aan skooldistrikte by die beplanning van onderwysprogramme en toegang vir
studente met gehoorverlies en ander ouditiewe disfunksie;
(k) die meting van geraasvlakke en die doen van aanbevelings oor
omgewingsaanpassings ten einde die geraasvlak to verlaag;
(I) die bestuur van die kies, aankoop, installering en evaluering van grootgebied-
klankversterkingstelsels;
(m) die fasilitering van die proses van die verkryging van toerusting en dienste ten
opsigte van probleme met gehoor, ouditiewe funksie en balans; en
(n) optrede as gevallebestuurders, diensleweringskoOrdineerders en lede van
samewerkingspanne (bv. geindividualiseerde gesinsdiensplanne en
geindividualiseerde onderwysprogramspanne, oorgangsbeplanningspanne).
Ondetwys en opleiding
(9) (a) Diens as opvoeders en navorsers in oudiologie;
(b) opvoeding van die publiek oor en die aankweek van bewustheid van
steurings van gehoor, ouditiewe funksie en balans, en die behandeling
daarvan;
(c) die verskaffing van indiensopleiding aan persone met gehoor- en
oudiologiese steurings, hulle gesinne, versorgers en ander beroepslui;
(d) onderrig aan, toesig oor en mentering van huidige en voornemende oudioloe;
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(e) onderrig aan, toesig oor en bestuur van oudiologie-assistente en ander
ondersteuningspersoneel;
(f) die meting van funksionele uitkomste, verbruikerstevredenheid, effektiwiteit
en doelmatigheid van praktyke en programme om die gehalte van
oudiologiedienste te handhaaf en te verbeter;
(g) die ontwerp en doen van basiese en toegepaste oudiologiese navorsing ten
einde die kennisbasis te vergroot, nuwe metodes en programme te ontwikkel,
en die effektiwiteit van evaluerings- en behandelingsparadigmas te bepaal,
navorsingsbevindings te versprei onder ander beroepslui en die publiek; en
(h) optrede as deskundige getuie.
Administrasie
(10) (a) Die administrasie en bestuur van kliniese en akademiese programme;
(b) deelname aan die ontwikkeling van beleide, bedryfsprosedures in die
werkplek, en beroeps- en tegniese standaarde; en
(c) toesig oor ondersteuningspersoneel.
Praktyksomgewing
(11) Die verskaffing van oudiologiedienste in 'n verskeidenheid van omgewings, wat
insluit, maar nie beperk is nie tot, dagsorgfasiliteite, voorskoolse instellings,
openbare en private skole, tersiere onderwysinstellings, openbare en private
hospitale, neonatale intensiewesorgeenhede, stedelike en landelike klinieke,
universiteitsklinieke, rehabilitasiefasiliteite, langtermynsorgeenhede, gedrags- en
geestesgesondheidsfasiliteite, private praktyke, dokterskamers, private huise,
gemeenskappe, nywerhede, militere instellings, navorsingsfasiliteite, plaaslike,
provinsiale en nasionale instellings en staatsdepartemente, en
gehoorapparaatmaatskappye.
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Reikwydte van kliente of pasiente
(12) Die verskaffing van oudiologiedienste aan persone van alle ouderdomsgroepe, hulle
gesinne en groepe uit uiteenlopende taal- en kultuuragtergronde.
Die vermelding van bepaalde terreine in hierdie regulasies sluit nie ontluikende
praktyksterreine in hierdie dinamiese en voortdurend ontwikkelende beroep uit nie.
Herroeping
3. Die regulasies afgekondig by Goewermentskennisgewing No. R. 889 van 5 Mei
1988 in Staatskoerant 11289 word hierby herroep.
DR. A MOTSOALEDI, LPMINISTER VAN GESONDHEID
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